Dr. Pittenger is a scientist with over 25 years of research experience and extensive training in biochemistry cellular and molecular biology. For over 10 years Dr. Pittenger has worked for Osiris Therapeutics as a Senior Research Scientist. Manager of Cell Biology Director of Discovery Research and ultimately as Vice President for Research performing extensive studies on the isolation characterization and differentiation of the multi-potential stem cells found in adult bone marrow known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Stemming from his research numerous developments have been made in this field including identifying key conditions for adipogenic differentiation of MSCs analysis of chondrogenic differentiation and a further understanding of the intracellular signaling pathway leading to osteogenic differentiation. With his numerous publications and five United States issued patents under his belt one thing in particular stands out amongst the others as a major accomplishment within his field of study. Dr. Pittenger's paper on clonally derived MSCs that established that MSCs were multipotent was published in Science in 1999; since then this paper has been cited in over 2000 reviewed publications. Dr. Pittenger received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins Medical School with post-doctoral research performed at Yale University. He has been invited to speak on both stem cell biology and regenerative medicine to many national and international audiences including England Germany Japan China etc. |